The big picture to pervade

Who will remember MSC 2000?

Version 0, Vienna, Tuesday, April 20, 2004

Michael@Schreiber.at

Abstract

This note in progress offers background information for the one page full text quotation of the Mathematics Subject Classification 2000 (MSC2000) shown at the 2004 New Kind of Science Conference in Boston.

Immortal classics and modern classification rarely used

Data

\(\(classificationuse = {{\(-1000\), \(-1000\), "", "-", "(NN of Babylon/Egypt)"}, {\(-0365\), 
            1997, "", "Elements", "EUCLID of Alexandria"}, 
{\(-200\), 
            0, "", "16 Computational Prescriptions", "Du ZHONG"}, 
{1928, 
            1993, "-", "A History of Mathematical Notations", "Florian CAJORI"}, 
{1923, 
            1958, "-", "History of Mathematics", "David E. SMITH"}, 
{1954, 
            1996, "-", "Encyclopedic Dictionary of Mathematics (EDM)", \*""Kiyosi IT\!\(\(O\&^\)\)""}, 
{1977, 
            1995, "MSC 1980", "Encyclopedia of Mathematics", "Michael HAZEWINKEL"}, 
{1965, 
            1998, "-", "Handbook of Mathematics", "Il`ja N. BRONSHTEIN, Konstantin A. SEMENDYAYEV"}, 
{1998, 
            1999, "-", "CRC Concise Encyclopedia of Mathematics", "Eric W. WEISSTEIN"}, 
{1995, 
            2004, "-", "mathworld.wolfram.com", "Eric W. WEISSTEIN"}, 
{1964, 
            1970, "-", "Handbook of Mathematical Functions", "Milton ABRAMOWITZ, Irene A. STEGUN"}, 
{2001, 
            2004, "-", "functions.wolfram.com", "Oleg MARICHEV, Michael TROTT"}
};\)\)

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A classification forgetting part of itself every few years?

"All articles have been provided with one or more AMS classification numbers according to the 1980 classification scheme 
(not, for various reasons, the 1985 revision), as have all items occuring in the index." 
Michael HAZEWINKEL (Editor) In: Encyclopedia of Mathematics, vol 1, page viii.

Some of these reasons might be found by comparing the node structures of different Mathematics Subject Classifications (Schemes) like 
Antonella De Robbio,  Dario  Maguolo, Alberto Marini: 
La versione Draft2000 della Mathematics Subject Classification  (MSC): How is mathematics moving  on?

Data

evolvingclassification={{1931, "", "Zentralblatt für Mathematik \
und ihre Grenzgebiete (ZM), Mathematics Abstracts (MA)"},
{1940, "", "Mathematical Review \
(MR), Current Mathematical Publications (CMP)"},{1940, 
              1960, "Alphabetical Subject Index [Mathematical Review]"},
{1958, 
              1972, "Subject Classification"},
{1968, 
              1972,  "American Mathematical Society (AMS), Mathematical \
Offprint Service (MOS)"},
{1970, 
              1980, "AMS (MOS) Subject Classification Scheme [Zentralblatt, \
Math. Review]"},
{1980, 
              1985, "Mathematical Subject Classification MSC 1980"},
{1986, 
              1991, "Mathematical Subject Classification"},
{1991, 
              2000, "Mathematical Subject Classification MSC 1991"},
{2000, "", "MSC 2000"}};

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Consequences

The Mathematics Subject Classification changes. 
Quoting it is not enough. 
A data base approach like the European Euler project and maybe even a new international cross organizational kind of organization development are needed to really realize its potential for scientists and other users.

The one page full text quotation poster shown at the Boston NKS Conference 2004 is just a start.

Links

"http://www.math.unipd.it/~biblio/math/analisi/2001.htm#5"

"http://www.ericweisstein.com/encyclopedias/books/HandbooksofMathematics.html"

"http://www.emis.de/projects/EULER/About.html"

"http://wolframscience.com/conference/2004/schedule.html"